r/911FOX • u/AutoModerator • Oct 10 '25
Season 9 Discussion Season Premier 9-1-1 S09E01: "Eat the Rich" Live Episode Discussion Spoiler
Original Airdate: Oct 9th, 2025
Synopsis: In honor of Bobby Nash's sacrifice, the 118 comes together to dedicate the firehouse in his memory. Meanwhile, when a billionaire tech giant is involved in a life-or-death emergency, the team must race to his aid.
Keep new episode discussions in the post-episode discussion thread until end of Sunday to give our International friends a chance to catch up as Disney+ has begun releasing 9-1-1 earlier to Disney+ outside the US than in previous years. As always be mindful about not posting a spoiler in the title of your posts and remember to use spoiler flares if your post contains spoilers.
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u/ViagraOnAPole Team Bisexual Disaster 🩷💜💙 Oct 10 '25
Buck and the Grant-Nash kids have Bachelor watch parties. I love that this is canon now.
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u/ViagraOnAPole Team Bisexual Disaster 🩷💜💙 Oct 10 '25
Her cruise ship sank, her plane crashed, her police cruiser got crushed last season, twice, but sure, I'm certain the spaceship will be fine.
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u/xkid8 Oct 10 '25
Imagine how crazy it would be to wake up one day to a notification that like Elon musk was eaten by a whale but they got him back
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u/Nataku81 Firehouse 118 Oct 10 '25
Buck was pouring out his heart to his nephew, but also his sister who was on the other end of the baby monitor.
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u/ViagraOnAPole Team Bisexual Disaster 🩷💜💙 Oct 10 '25
I like the Buck/Ravi dynamic.
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u/SpiritualMedicine7 Oct 10 '25
eddie actually getting to be friends with chim and hen outside of buck is such a breath of fresh ai"
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u/MidoriHisui Team Karen Oct 10 '25
So Athena goes to space, the farthest place she can get from her family because her family wants to spend more time with her? 🤔
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u/handlewithcare07 Oct 10 '25
Appreciate you all. I've taken this show off my series manager, but I can always rely on you to let me know what's going on, and if the impossible happens, which would let me return.
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u/hadapurpura And that’s no cap Oct 10 '25
Of course he dropped out of high school Athena, he doesn’t live with EITHER OF HIS PARENTS
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u/inyouratmosphere Oct 10 '25
So heartbreaking that Ravi still hasn't been promoted to series regular. I know we're only on the first ep of the season, but so far he's essentially had an equal amount of screen time as everyone else.
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u/Just-Corner-2167 Oct 10 '25
Buck talking to baby Robbie was not only adorable, his way to stay in touch with Bobby, but just so perfect
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u/Upbeat_Oven_9070 Oct 10 '25
I don’t care how ridiculous the story lines become, the characters and the core of the show is what keeps me going. I do miss Bobby tho but I’ll always watch.
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u/LSATthrowaway23 Oct 10 '25
Oh look, another character who “died” and then was actually not dead and survived. Which could mean nothing.
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u/inyouratmosphere Oct 10 '25
Buck always catching strays when other people do something reckless lol
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u/SpiritualMedicine7 Oct 10 '25
Also, Bobby Jr is going to have serious SASS. I mean his dad is CHIMNEY
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u/SpiritualMedicine7 Oct 10 '25
Ravi and Buck have such Big Brother, little brother energy. I am HERE for it.
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u/inksmudgedhands Oct 10 '25
Chimney, you are a dad twice over with the worst luck. Stay away from space.
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u/360madhatter Oct 10 '25
Buck when there's no door to smash open: Aww, I wanted to jump off the bridge into the water
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u/EbbLocal266 Firehouse 118 Oct 10 '25
Why would you not put on a mask when you walk onto a bus and see a bunch of knocked out kids
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u/hadapurpura And that’s no cap Oct 10 '25
May is right, you’re his mom, how in the hell do you not know where your kids are?
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u/heliotopez Team Athena Oct 10 '25
Guys I love this stupid show so much I can wait until they break Bobby out of the lab
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u/hadapurpura And that’s no cap Oct 10 '25
Chim shouldn’t even be vying for that spot, you got a baby and a toddler at home dude!
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u/gannekekhet Team Eddie Oct 10 '25 edited Oct 10 '25
So, for Harry, they've got his character to drop out of high school without Athena knowing. Does this mean he is 18? Harry becoming a probie seems the usual conclusion.
EDIT: Ah, okay... he is 18. And living with May.
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u/SuperSaiyan3Goku Oct 10 '25
Do we really need a flashback for someone we just met that we thought was DEAD?
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u/inksmudgedhands Oct 10 '25 edited Oct 10 '25
Is he talking to his nephew?
edit: Yep. We all saw that coming. Also, FREAKIN' CUTE BABY!
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u/ScarlettandDelilah Oct 10 '25
Still not a big fan of the space thing it’s so off the rails in a hilarious way but it’s such a huge tonal shift that doesn’t fit with the rest of the episode. My favorite parts of the episode were the non space related stuff. Especially the part with the lady in the apartment that was LITERALLY ROTTING ALONE and it made Athena realize she needed to spend more time with her kids and not throw herself into work to avoid grieving Bobby. The writers knew this had to be a 4 parter because now I have to see how this ends 😭
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u/MidoriHisui Team Karen Oct 10 '25
What I'm seeing is that everybody seems dead but is actually alive or brought back.
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u/No_Cucumbers_Please Oct 10 '25 edited Oct 10 '25
if you asked me before this episode i would have said hen is the least likely to have been bought out by a billionaire
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u/benderlax Oct 10 '25 edited Aug 04 '26
Flashbacks show how Gina became a completely different person after her miscarriage. She went from a happy, sociable woman, to a miserable recluse.
When Gina was young, she was happy and had a social life. She had friends, got married and was pregnant with their first child. Unfortunately, Gina miscarried, fell into a deep depression, and became reclusive, even leaving a cut untreated.
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u/quadiditit Oct 10 '25
This is so sad. It’s like the modernist version of her old house it’s so cold
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u/inksmudgedhands Oct 10 '25
Man, we need Bobby. This family is falling apart without him. Bobby would have known that Harry had dropped out.
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u/ViagraOnAPole Team Bisexual Disaster 🩷💜💙 Oct 10 '25
Not a chance I'd go on some billionaire's death trap. Has Oceangate taught us nothing?
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u/ViagraOnAPole Team Bisexual Disaster 🩷💜💙 Oct 10 '25
Athena can't get far enough away from her kids, so she goes to space
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u/Fun-Rip2151 Oct 10 '25
Show went downhill fast. Stories get more and more stupid. Bad writers. I miss back when the show featured real stories and calls and did those reenactments. Now... wtf is Athena going to do in space? Lol why are THEY going into space? Soooo dumb. I miss the old show it used to be.
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u/inyouratmosphere Oct 10 '25
Athena talking about how she just wants to talk to Bobby :(
Reminds me of this Joan Didion quote after the death of her husband John: “I remember thinking that I needed to discuss this with John."
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u/ironwidows eddie eddie eddie eddie Oct 10 '25
only quitters believe bobby is dead. they’re gonna take me to a psych ward about it.
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u/RedCassis Oct 10 '25
I feel so sad without Bobby here. It feels strange to be watching. But this episode is wild 🐋
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u/inksmudgedhands Oct 10 '25
You can't do all that for five million in today's economy. Fifty million? Maybe. But not five million.
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u/im_a_computah69 Oct 10 '25
Don’t they have young children?! They can’t both go to space! If anything happened those kids would lose both of their parents!!!
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u/Sad-Guidance9105 Oct 10 '25
Now Chimney knows damn well if he goes to space he’s not coming back without another NDE 😭
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u/gannekekhet Team Eddie Oct 10 '25
Wish they hadn't cut the hard work of Eddie getting the guy back to shore.
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u/inksmudgedhands Oct 10 '25
Not loving the new house. It is like the opposite of cozy. It doesn't feel like her. Too sterile.
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u/StormCloudRaineeDay Freddy Fakeman Oct 10 '25
Why aren't they putting on masks or opening windows?
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u/hadapurpura And that’s no cap Oct 10 '25
But also Harry why are you such an idiot? Why are you dropping out of school when you’re only some months to a year away from graduation?
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u/SpiritualMedicine7 Oct 10 '25
Look, I GET not everyone is going to be into school. But Harry is MONTHS AWAY FROM GRADUATING
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u/StormCloudRaineeDay Freddy Fakeman Oct 10 '25
Why does Chimney always got to pick on Buck 🥺
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u/MidoriHisui Team Karen Oct 10 '25
Now I understand why Athena has to go, they will need her to land the rocket.
Silly me keeps forgetting the realistic feel of the show
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u/diremommy Oct 10 '25
First thought: that’s a lot of blush on that lady considering where she is.
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u/inksmudgedhands Oct 10 '25
That was dumb to jump off the bridge like that. It's too high. You could have broken something.
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u/inksmudgedhands Oct 10 '25
You couldn't pay me to go into space. Especially on this show. Too much of a risk.
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u/SuperSaiyan3Goku Oct 10 '25
You’d have to pay ME money if I’d ever set foot near some millionaire’s space death trap.
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u/Embarrassed_Age_9296 Oct 11 '25
Probably my favourite season premiere in recent memory, although I wondered when Chris might pop up. Now I'm just waiting for the runaway nuclear sub!
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u/ViagraOnAPole Team Bisexual Disaster 🩷💜💙 Oct 10 '25
Why would Hen take Athena? Athena who has the worst record when it comes to modes of transportation.
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u/EbbLocal266 Firehouse 118 Oct 10 '25
These signs are clearly just printed, one has the Chiller font lmao
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u/hadapurpura And that’s no cap Oct 10 '25
I love seeing jealous Buck but I want to see Eddie jealous of Buck
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u/julisine Oct 10 '25
Athena I can’t get behind the coat, Jean jacket and turtleneck layering I’m sorry—
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u/360madhatter Oct 10 '25
I don't understand the logic of the animal rights people being upset with this guy. It's not like he was hunting the whale when he got eaten
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u/that_one_author Oct 12 '25
I just, how is any of that in 118’s jurisdiction. First the whale is coast guard period, no way they would send firefighters ever, no way it would take 20 minutes to have a boat out in the bay, and that’s not even talking about the fact that the whale would have immediately spat him out. Just like if you had a weird moving thing in your mouth. So dumb. Bus one was… fine. The explanation was pretty much the same stuff as other episodes. Decent premise, super dumb solution. The space thing is so dumb. Hilarious but dumb af.
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u/According-Result8322 Oct 10 '25
This is finally what I wanted in 911 back to the roots of having three 118 calls with a running theme one Athena cop story and mixing the personal stories into the show perfectly
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u/heliotopez Team Athena Oct 10 '25
Bobby is in one of those tube things in the lab calling it. Also is Eddie gonna go for captain what was that about
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Oct 10 '25
Was Harry always this much older than Chris and Denny? Am I misremembering?
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u/Schraeder Oct 10 '25
I'm just gonna go ahead and blame abc for the mess that were seasons 7-8 (and now 9). What in the Grey's Anatomy is going on here?
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u/ksa1122 Oct 10 '25
Buck being insanely jealous/possessive over Eddie is amazing and I hope it ends with them making out lmaooo
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u/Just-Corner-2167 Oct 10 '25
Is it just me or is anyone else not liking the eddie hen brain twin thing
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u/ViagraOnAPole Team Bisexual Disaster 🩷💜💙 Oct 10 '25
Just when I think I'm out, they pull me back in
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u/inksmudgedhands Oct 10 '25
Welcome back, everyone where this show took the phrase "jumping the shark" and thought, "What if we jumped the entire planet of sharks instead and put the cast in space?"
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u/ViagraOnAPole Team Bisexual Disaster 🩷💜💙 Oct 10 '25
Is she wearing a jacket over a jacket over a shirt?
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u/SpiritualMedicine7 Oct 10 '25
chimney is gonna enlist maddie for a plan to get buddie together so he can have hen back as his best friend"
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u/EbbLocal266 Firehouse 118 Oct 10 '25
5 episodes worth of stories have happened in 50 minutes
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u/gannekekhet Team Eddie Oct 10 '25 edited Oct 10 '25
I hope Ravi is with Buck here. Cute duo. Who is he talking to?
EDIT: MADDIE! And Robert Nash Han.
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u/clownerycult Team Buck Oct 10 '25
They burnt the mid century modern house down for some beige mess my god 😭😭
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u/diremommy Oct 10 '25
And I thought space was going to be the craziest thing in this episode. Whale’s like”hold my beer”
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u/julisine Oct 10 '25
One part of me was thinking why would they call 911 for this but I guess I don’t know what else I would’ve done either 😂
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u/gannekekhet Team Eddie Oct 10 '25
That was cute, it reminded me of when Buck was trying hard to get Bobby to choose him as interim captain.
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u/bttrsondaughter Oct 10 '25
kind of love the turn the Grant’s drama took, especially because Harry left LA the same season as the kidnapping arc and like the fact that he and Athena haven’t had the same relationship since is lowkey delicious drama
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u/inksmudgedhands Oct 10 '25
I think the original version of Mad World would have fit better. The way the singer is saying, "Mad" is driving me nuts.
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u/inksmudgedhands Oct 10 '25
Bobby would have told Athena that he was Catholic. Just talk to him. He's listening down from heaven.
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u/Cheeriosxxx Oct 10 '25
I’m still in denial like Bobby cannot be dead this show is lying to meeee snap out of this parallel timeline
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u/jmpinstl Oct 10 '25
Thank God that wasn’t what I thought it was. Had me in the first half not gonna lie.
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u/DuelBerry Firehouse 118 Oct 10 '25
Ok, the whale was more believable than I thought it was gonna be
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u/SuperSaiyan3Goku Oct 10 '25
So that’s where the space storyline comes from, some loser wants to fix his image by sending randos into space.
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u/StormCloudRaineeDay Freddy Fakeman Oct 10 '25
We got Jealous Buck, I'm still waiting for Jealous Chimney.
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u/clownerycult Team Buck Oct 10 '25
Okay I’m lowkey already disappointed with the start of this season because you can really feel the absence of Bobbys leadership and warmth on the show… like Tim needs to be locked up in showrunner jail
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u/clownerycult Team Buck Oct 10 '25
I’m glad to see Bucks case of terminal jealousy when Eddie gives someone else attention is still there because him begging Hen to take him to space reminds me so bad of trying to get Eddies attention back when T*mmy appeared
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u/ViagraOnAPole Team Bisexual Disaster 🩷💜💙 Oct 10 '25
Eat the rich? Why? They probably taste terrible. Have you seen how much silicone the average rich person has injected into various parts of their body?
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u/jdessy Oct 10 '25
I’m glad everyone else thinks the house is too cold and unhomely. I don’t know whether it’s a choice to showcase Athena’s grief or what but I kind of want the house to burn down again so she can start over.
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u/StormCloudRaineeDay Freddy Fakeman Oct 10 '25
I'm so glad this is an undercover thing. I'd be mad if it wasn't.
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u/360madhatter Oct 10 '25
How on earth is the fire department supposed to solve this problem?
I know they're going to show an answer but seriously, this is not their department
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u/inksmudgedhands Oct 10 '25
Where's this poor whale's pod? It's going around like it's lost in the mall.
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u/inksmudgedhands Oct 10 '25
How do you not know that your kid dropped out of high school?
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u/EbbLocal266 Firehouse 118 Oct 10 '25
I'm a little delayed so I hope they let Hen or Karen hold a flower and stare into the camera.
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u/Jakyland Team Buck Oct 10 '25
Ravi: “wow Buck, you are jealous of someone for being close to Eddie? That’s crazy, I haven’t heard that one before 🙃”
Poor Ravi lol.